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Chronicles: Early Works

Chronicles: Early Works

Brand, Dionne

Paperback

Poetry CriticismGeneral PoetryHistoriography

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1554583748
ISBN13: 9781554583744
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

One of Canada's most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and modern crises. This republication of three early volumes presents a view of the trajectory of her poetic journey. Read retrospectively, the earlier work is haunting, a testament to a historical moment in which change seemed possible, even imminent, a belief nourished by the various social movements that galvanized a generation. Individually and as a whole, Brand's work charts a collective as well as a personal journey, delving into the burdens of history and the fugitive, contingent, dynamic, and mutable geographies of the African diaspora. She locates herself within matrices of language, place, gender, sexuality, and politics and maps what she calls the murmurous genealogy of her city, Toronto, and the denizen-citizenship of the contemporary global.

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